THE VICE-PRESIDENT, PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO SAYS THE COUNTRY HAS THE CAPACITY TO PROVIDE FOR ALL AND DESERVES THE BEST FROM EVERY NIGERIAN.

 

THE VICE-PRESIDENT, PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO SAYS THE COUNTRY HAS THE CAPACITY TO PROVIDE FOR ALL AND DESERVES THE BEST FROM EVERY NIGERIAN.

• HONOURED WITH AN AWARD IN IMO

• AS GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA DESCRIBES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT & THE VP, AS EXEMPLARY.

The Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has said that the nation has the resources and the wherewithal to provide for all Nigerians, and pledged that the government would continue to work to ensure that the country delivers to all of its promises and potentials.

Prof. Osinbajo also explained that the nation deserves the best from all Nigerians, since it is ours, believing that if we all do the best we can, the nation will be a much better place.

The Vice-President spoke weekend while being honoured with an Award by the Imo State Government as theGrand Chancellor of the State of Imoat the popular Heroes’ Square Owerri. The Vice-President was in Imo to Commission some of the landmark achievements of Governor Rochas Okorocha.

He remarked “Let me say that our nation, this nation that we all call ours deserves the very best that each and every one of us can give. Some of us have the privillege to have been elected among millions of our people into positions of leadership and many may not have that opportunity. But, however the cap fits should remember that true greatness, true contributions to our country does not require us to be governors, Presidents or Vice-Presidents. It only requires us to be concerned about the other person”.

The VP further stated, “I must confess what I’m most pleasantly surprised by this award and I must say that if I had known that this conferment of title will take place, I would have been much better dressed. I would have won my best Agbada or Babariga. And I want to thank the Governor for this honour, and of course the government and people of Imo State. This place, Heroes’ Square is a place of immense importance, and a place which I’m certain is going to become even a place of greater historic importance”.

According to him “The decision of the governor of this State is an attempt to ensure that the words of our National Anthem, the labours of our Heroes past shall never be in vain. I think that it is for the benefit of the future, for the benefit of generations yet unborn. But we know there must be men and women of great achievements, trustworthy, integrity, and of conscience, who through their lives have touched or demonstrated that the human kind is capable of kindness, and capable of service to others, especially, service of the type to which one does not expect any kind of recompense”.

He added “And I hope that what we are seeing here may be repeated or replicated across the country. This recognition appeals everywhere. When you look at all of those whose statues are here, at this Heroes Square, there’s no question at all that they were men and women of great distinction. They were not perfect and no one says that they were perfect. But they were men and women who in their times, though some of them are still alive, who demonstrated such a high level of public service, in the public arena”.

His words “This honour is therefore dedicated to all of our people especially those who today are still looking out for employment and looking out for help in various ways, because this country is capable of providing for all of us. And so I accept this honour with deep gratitude in my heart to the government and people of Imo State and in particular, my brother Rochas Okorocha and also with deep gratitude to God Almighty, who made it possible”.

In his speech at the Award event, Governor Rochas Okorocha commended the kind of working relationship between the President, Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice-President Prof. Osinbajo describing it as exemplary.

The governor said unlike what had obtained in the past in the country between Presidents and Vice-Presidents and what also obtains in other nations, the relationship between Buhari and Osinbajo is enviable, adding that the nation is blessed to have the duo.

He said he has opened the doors of Imo State for the rest of the world for development through some of his landmark policies and projects including the Imo Merit Awards, The Heroes Square where the statues of great Nigerians and Africans whose achievements could be challenging to the younger generation and generations yet unborn have been erected.

Governor Rochas Okorocha decorating the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo with the Grand Chancellor of the State of ImoAward medal weekend at the Heros’ Square Owerri, when the V.P. came to the State to Commission some of the landmark projects of the governor.

Governor Rochas Okorocha handing over to the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Certificate of the Award as the Grand Chancellor of the State of Imo weekend at the Heros’ Square Owerri, when the V.P. came to the State to Commission some landmark projects of the governor.